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Subject:RE: How (not) to speak English properly From:"Jane Carnall" <jane -dot- carnall -at- digitalbridges -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:45:16 -0000
If you google on one of the phrases - for example, "Analogies in writing are
like feathers on a snake" you get over 1300 hits. Some variant or other of
this list has been rolling around the Internet (and, no doubt, around
how-to-write courses and handbooks) for some years. The number of rules
ranges from 20 to 50. The author is sometimes cited as William Safire,
source, _Rules for Writers_, but I suspect it's been added to and tweaked
with for quite a while.
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>I have no idea where this gem came from--it was forwarded to me by a
>co-worker. I thought the list would get a chuckle out it.
>How (not) to speak English properly
1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.
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Jane Carnall
Technical Writer and Compendium
of Arcane and Useless Information
Apologies for the long additional sig: it is added automatically and outwith
my control
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